Jean-Louis Le Moigne

The biography that follows was realized from discussions that Jean-Louis Le Moigne granted during the year 1998 as part of the preparation for the publication of its "Mix" (a collective work realized in his honor, to which important authors contributed — among which are: Herbert Simon, Edgar Morin, Ernst von Glasersfeld, P. Tabatoni, H. Bartoli — that was published under the title Between Systemic & Complexity: Trailblazing, to the P. U. F. in 1999).

Jean-Louis Le Moigne was born on 22 March 1931 in Casablanca; he is the eldest child of three children.

His father, Emile Le Moigne, had embraced a career in engineering that led him to move to Morocco for a few years to contribute thereby building a hydraulic barrier that made him famous in the area and that was inaugurated after 1940.

Émile would meet the mother of Jean-Louis, the daughter of an officer, who participated during that time in the construction of the railroads of Morocco.

Note to the reader: this maternal grandfather marked the early childhood of Jean-Louis: he was the seventh boy of a family of nine children—that had emigrated from la Creuse (where his father was a mason) towards the Nièvre where there seemed to be more work... –